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April 2006 - Posts

TechEd 2006 Australia Registration is now live!!!
Ive been asked several times now when registration is going to be open - well its now open!! All the information you need is at: www.microsoft.com.au/teched2006 Initial track plans are at http://blogs.technet.com/mkleef/archive/category/10983.aspx Read More...
TechEd 2006 AU and NZ: SQL Track Preliminary released
Dave Glover , the track owner for the SQL and BI track for TechEd AU and NZ has just released his first draft. He posted it at his blog - check it out and give him lots of comments! Read More...
Vista Firewall hobbled? I think not.
I was reading a ZDnet article today about the Vista firewall being hobbled because it apparently wont support "Outbound firewall protection by default" - which is not quite correct. Of course it will still support inbound protection by default as in XP Read More...
TechEd 2006 AU and NZ: Content Release Plans
A few people have emailed me lately asking about their content submissions and whether they were successful - this post is to let you all know about the primary focus areas for the event in our minds and when community submissions will be accepted or Read More...
Pentagon adopts Smartcards - a discussion in technology limitations
Hmm - was reading this story today on eWeek - its about the Pentagon adopting the use of smartcards for system logons, building access and potential payment of services. Im not that impressed - at Microsoft we have been doing that for years! We use our Read More...
TechEd 2006 AU and NZ: Windows Client, Conn Systems and Architecture
Heres more ideas! Comments please! Windows Client Using Windows PE to Customize Your Windows Vista Deployments Windows Vista: Remote Deployments What's new in Software Installation on Windows Vista Image Engineering: Creating Your Perfect Desktop Migrating Read More...
TechEd 2006 AU and NZ: Web Developer Track preliminaries
Nigel Parker has pulled his finger out and got me his Web Developer track! Way to go Nigel! :) Web Developer IIS 7: End-to-End Overview of Microsoft's New Web Application Server IIS 7: Building Custom Web Server Extensions IIS 7: Under the Hood for Web Read More...
TechEd AU and NZ 2006 Planning: More content for your review!
So heres some of the early thinking around the Office System and Developer tracks. Still to come are "Database and Business Intelligence", "Windows Client", "Patterns and Practises (Architecture)", "Web Developer" and "Connected Systems" Thanks to Andrew Read More...
Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now free..surprised?
Yes Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now free...as in click here to download it Im interested...even though it was a reallly good thing...were you really surprised about this announcement? VMWare was also recently announced to be free so now you have a "free" Read More...
Proclarity acquired by MSFT
Very excited to tell you about a new acquisition of ProClarity . If youve never used it before its a fabulous Business Intelligence client to SQL 2000 and 2005 Analysis Services . Allows great data visualisation. Heres the announcement! http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/apr06/04-03ProClarityPR.msp Read More...
TechEd 2006 AU and NZ: Preliminary Ideas
Hey - Jeff and I have just been doing our top 16 sessions (and maybe a couple more :) ) for TechEd this year. We're looking for your feedback again! Messaging and Mobility Telephony Integration and Voice Over IP with Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 Read More...
I've caved...I bought an XBOX360 on the weekend...
I tried to resist...really I did... First my best mate bought one with my first favourite game of PGR3 ...then David Olive from Westnet (favourite ISP!) emails me gushing about his 360 and how awesome Ghost Recon is with the Live integration ...which Read More...
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